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Summary: A Must-Have Title
Review: Megazone 23 was one of the earliest OAV series produced, and was considered groundbreaking when it was released. I'm really happy that Streamline made part one available on DVD! Unfortunately, they haven't released the second or third parts yet. I asked one of the guys working at the Streamline booth at Anime Expo 2001 when they were going to do so, and he said that he didn't know when or even if they were. Hopefully he was wrong, and the rest will be released domestically!
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Summary: A Must-Have Title
Review: Megazone 23 was one of the earliest OAV series produced, and was considered groundbreaking when it was released. I'm really happy that Streamline made part one available on DVD! Unfortunately, they haven't released the second or third parts yet. I asked one of the guys working at the Streamline booth at Anime Expo 2001 when they were going to do so, and he said that he didn't know when or even if they were. Hopefully he was wrong, and the rest will be released domestically!
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Summary: A rare and classsic SCI-FI Thriller
Review: The Megazone 23 part is the first in a three part series. Our hero named "Shogo" stumbles into a secrect military project that forever changes his views on where he lives while at the same time he falls madly in love with the woman of his dreams. There is so much more in this stroy it is hard to write about it in a review. Believe me, if you like anime then you will love Megazone 23. If you never watched anime, then this is one of the best ones you could ever watch. There is Megazone 23 part two and a part three but these will hopefully become avaliable to us again. I hope you get to watch those as well becuase you can complete the expericance that the creators of the series meant for you to have. If you can only see the first one you will still be left with a mystery but you will still have an all time classic tale as well.
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Summary: A rare and classsic SCI-FI Thriller
Review: The Megazone 23 part is the first in a three part series. Our hero named "Shogo" stumbles into a secrect military project that forever changes his views on where he lives while at the same time he falls madly in love with the woman of his dreams. There is so much more in this stroy it is hard to write about it in a review. Believe me, if you like anime then you will love Megazone 23. If you never watched anime, then this is one of the best ones you could ever watch. There is Megazone 23 part two and a part three but these will hopefully become avaliable to us again. I hope you get to watch those as well becuase you can complete the expericance that the creators of the series meant for you to have. If you can only see the first one you will still be left with a mystery but you will still have an all time classic tale as well.
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: Truly one of the best Anime movies ever made . I would recommend this to anyone who is even remotely interested in Anime.
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Summary: GOOFBALL VIDEO
Review: Well, as lamebrained mishmashes of conflicted, cluttered, and uninnovative anime go, I guess Megazone 23 takes the cake, and the pan it sits on, and the oven it was baked in. Just barely lying under the surface, this story of superficiality and illusion, is an analogy to itself. Well, let's start at the beginning. Shogo Yahagi is an 18 year old McDonald's employee who, as is standard, rides a motorcycle and is a juvenile delinquent in disguise. One of his friends invites him to see a very futuristic looking bike that he says was "borrowed" from the company he works for. Right then, some x-files looking agents show up with guns demanding the bike back. In the confusion, Shogo's friend (or just acquaintance?) is killed and Shogo takes off on the bike, soon learning that it can transform into a battle-primed mecha (which he seems to pilot expertly with no training). He soon goes on to use it for his own purposes, like spying on a girl he's interested in, and killing innocent people as he drives down the street with no regard for pedestrians. By coencidental circumstances (by that I mean stopping in a tunnel), Shogo learns that the world he lives in is an artificial world inside a spaceship controlled by a super computer, which is being approached by a UFO, and is currently under danger of being taken over by military subversives. I thought America was the only one that suffered from the 80's: bad music, bad hair, bad clothes. Yet here we are in Megazone with all the sorry disco-like music and bufont hair. Especially in Flashdance like sequences where a girl dances in spandex and legwarmers. The plot of this story never added up. I mean, for 500 years, this whole population has been living in a spaceship without noticing, and then this guy just takes a wrong turn in a tunnel and finds out the secret. I mean where was all the food coming from? Where were the dead buried? Didn't anyone, like in the Truman Show, come to the end of the city and run into a wall? None of the characters in this series has a clue. This is only Part 1 so I would think more explanation would be given in the second volume, which by the way, I won't buy. Another goofy sidestory is that Shogo and his girlfriends are making an independent film on the side which has the same story as the dvd. Wow, a mirror within a mirror....of lameness. The only redeeming ideas here were used later on in Dark City and the Matrix films and Akira. Watch any of those films instead of wasting time and money on this dvd. Features a commentary and production sketches. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, in a scene of Megazone, the mecha are told to use their light sabers, which yes, are exactly like those of Star Wars, even with the "wowwww, woowww" sound effects. Also, Shogo's bike sounds suspiciously like the Millenium Falcon as it runs. Awful.
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Summary: Megazone 23: Back With A Vengeance...!!!
Review: Well, I just bought, and watched, my copy of this CLASSIC "Japanamation" (which, for those to young to remember the 80's, is what we use to call "Anime" back in the 80's) OVA (which stands for, Original Video Animation, which meant anything that was animated to go straight to video, and not for play on Japanese TV, as most anime was made for, and you thought that you weren't gonna learn anything, by reading this review... lol) MEGAZONE 23, and am QUITE relieved that the new English dub for this new release, isn't ANYWHERE as BAD, as the past reviewers have said that it was. Sure, most fans of this title, have grown up with the older Streamline Pictures, English dub, which is a nice dub, except for the fact that the three main girls in the story, all sound like sophisticated ladies, and NOT the young adults that they are actually suppose to be, where as in this new version, the dubbing team has opted for voices that closer mirror the attitudes of the young ladies, which is also nice (my suggestion is that you try and acquire BOTH versions of this anime, so that you can decide for yourself as to which dub you prefer). Another plus, is the audio commentary (which you should definitely listen to AFTER watching the show if you are new to this title, as there be spoilers afoot, me lads :) which, although, tends to spend more then half of it's time, with the three speakers reminiscing about their old Laser Disc anime collections, does get into some pretty funny good natured kidding about the show itself (i.e. how room items seem to change from scene to scene) and some interesting anecdotal tidbits about the show as well. The story is shear 80's, sci-fi-mecha-transformation-actioner, and if you like Macross (or Robotech, as it is widely known here) then you'll LOVE this, as it's BIGGER and BADDER, with a nice story. One thing to take into consideration when watching this though, is he fact that this is part 1 of a 3 part story (actually, really only a 2 part story, as the next part, part 2, really ends the story, where as part 3 is more of an add on to try and cash in on the Akira phenomenon, and, although it has it's merit, is pretty much a different story) and so, doesn't have a proper ending, as such, leaving the door WAY open for part 2. So, keep this in mind, as ALL questions WILL be nicely answered, in part 2. All in all, a nice job was done on this title, and is definitely worth the mula (and for the novice animer out there, this is a title NOT to be missed, trust me ;)
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Summary: Megazone 23: Back With A Vengeance...!!!
Review: Well, I just bought, and watched, my copy of this CLASSIC "Japanamation" (which, for those to young to remember the 80's, is what we use to call "Anime" back in the 80's) OVA (which stands for, Original Video Animation, which meant anything that was animated to go straight to video, and not for play on Japanese TV, as most anime was made for, and you thought that you weren't gonna learn anything, by reading this review... lol) MEGAZONE 23, and am QUITE relieved that the new English dub for this new release, isn't ANYWHERE as BAD, as the past reviewers have said that it was. Sure, most fans of this title, have grown up with the older Streamline Pictures, English dub, which is a nice dub, except for the fact that the three main girls in the story, all sound like sophisticated ladies, and NOT the young adults that they are actually suppose to be, where as in this new version, the dubbing team has opted for voices that closer mirror the attitudes of the young ladies, which is also nice (my suggestion is that you try and acquire BOTH versions of this anime, so that you can decide for yourself as to which dub you prefer). Another plus, is the audio commentary (which you should definitely listen to AFTER watching the show if you are new to this title, as there be spoilers afoot, me lads :) which, although, tends to spend more then half of it's time, with the three speakers reminiscing about their old Laser Disc anime collections, does get into some pretty funny good natured kidding about the show itself (i.e. how room items seem to change from scene to scene) and some interesting anecdotal tidbits about the show as well. The story is shear 80?s, sci-fi-mecha-transformation-actioner, and if you like Macross (or Robotech, as it is widely known here) then you?ll LOVE this, as it?s BIGGER and BADDER, with a nice story. One thing to take into consideration when watching this though, is he fact that this is part 1 of a 3 part story (actually, really only a 2 part story, as the next part, part 2, really ends the story, where as part 3 is more of an add on to try and cash in on the Akira phenomenon, and, although it has it?s merit, is pretty much a different story) and so, doesn?t have a proper ending, as such, leaving the door WAY open for part 2. So, keep this in mind, as ALL questions WILL be nicely answered, in part 2. All in all, a nice job was done on this title, and is definitely worth the mula (and for the novice animer out there, this is a title NOT to be missed, trust me ;)
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